Terra Australis - History of the Cartography of Tierra del Fuego, Patagonia & Antarctica

The map collection of the Ushuaia Maritime Museum displayed along the history of the cartography of the southernmost parts of the globe. A high quality bilingual volume of the Documentos series.


Terra Australis opens many windows into the study of the geographical past and encourages the reader to delve deeper into other sources. Besides, Vairo s work triggers every sort of association and analogy with our present world, whose globalization process the much talked-about, as if it were something new began its expansion hand in hand with the charts that European seafarers developed during the age of conquest and colonization of the Indies.